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Recordings

‘For fire burning in snow is the effect of love’. The final line of Juan de Araujo’s Dime, amor gives this recording its title and conjures up the passion and dramatic contrasts which make this disc such a delight. Ex Cathedra’s uplifting recordings ...» More

‘For fire burning in snow is the effect of love’. The final line of Juan de Araujo’s Dime, amor gives this recording its title and conjures up the passion and dramatic contrasts which make this disc such a delight. Ex Cathedra’s uplifting recordings ...» More

Who is calling? Fame, who brings the sweet-sounding news of a brilliant day, of a dawn that gilds the forests, the valleys, in which neither time, nor century, nor hour, nor instant ever cast a shadow. This day and its dawn show many great signs: that she is a tower; that she is a sky; that she is a rose; that she is a ship; to whom sunbeams are offered; to whom moonlight bows down; who is always obeyed; who was never assailed; by the sun, the moon, the sea or all the air.

So let their voices cry, saluting her, with great rejoicing, that the day and the dawn is lovely Mary, full of Grace.

Today when Mary is born time has reached its zenith, for it sees transformed in joys those who wept in sorrows.

And so the sun to its heaven pays homage, as its flaming light rises to a higher sphere.

On this happy day of her birth delight could not be greater, because in so joyful an hour, good fortune was ensured for ever.

And so the ethereal sphere of the air is thronged with singing birds, celebrating her glory.